Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Havana, Dec 7.- Cuba and Palestine are brothers in the fight against imperialism, terrorism and the Zionist State, said Ali Faysal, vice president of the Palestinian National Council in a meeting with representatives of the National Assembly of the Caribbean country.
During the meeting with the vice president of the National Assembly of People's Power, Ana María Mari Machado, at the Capitol headquarters of this capital, Faysal denounced Israel's genocide against its people for more than 70 years and highlighted that the Palestinian cause is the of all the men in the world who love freedom.
Faysal indicated that it is a very difficult moment for the Arab nation, since at least 16 thousand people have died in Gaza since last October 7, among them, around six thousand children and four thousand women; More than a million have been displaced and thousands of people are injured and missing under the rubble.
She also stated that Cuba constitutes an example of resistance against United States policy and the cruel economic, financial and commercial blockade imposed more than 60 years ago, to try to overshadow the successes of the Cuban people.
The representative of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Lebanon also denounced the United States' support for Israel's aggression, death and extermination, in violation of the United Nations Charter and other international laws.
Mari Machado advocated for the right of the Arab nation to build a free and sovereign State within the pre-1967 borders and with Jerusalem as its capital and the return of refugees to their lands.
In turn, she ratified that Cuba will defend the Palestinian cause in all international forums and instances, to support the immediate search, through negotiation, for a broad, fair and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The Palestinian ambassador to Cuba, Akram Samhan, warned that Palestine is in danger of facing a new Nakba, an Arabic term that means catastrophe and refers to the mass expulsion of Palestinians from their lands 75 years ago by the Israeli occupation.
There is a lot to do to prevent it; to preserve the roots of the Palestinian people, their right to independence and to live in peace, she stressed.
Both parties discussed the actions carried out in this regard in the group of Non-Aligned Countries, the group of 77 and China and the International Interparliamentary Union and how to continue working to make the rights of Palestine visible to international public opinion.
Also participating in the meeting were the representative of the International Relations Commission of the Cuban Parliament, Rolando González, and the president of the Palestine-Cuba parliamentary friendship group, Tamara Valido. (Text and photo: PL)
